Opsware Inc. (NASDAQ: OPSW), formerly Loudcloud Inc., the leading provider of Data Center Automation (DCA) software, announced availability of the Opsware Blade Edition for the Sun Fire B100s SPARC Blade servers, a key offering of Sun’s newly announced Sun Fire™ Blade Platform. In addition, Sun has selected Opsware to join Sun’s Blade Solutions Community, a collaborative effort that provides customers with a full portfolio of integrated, highly reliable, flexible and scalable solutions for Blade server management. The Opsware Blade Edition for Sun Blade servers will be unveiled February 13th at Sun’s Data Center Summit in Las Vegas, NV.

Opsware Blade Edition is automation software that significantly reduces the total cost of ownership of blade servers. Specifically, Opsware Blade Edition automates operating system and application provisioning on blade servers and automates other critical blade server operations such as power and chassis management. Opsware Blade Edition is specifically designed to automate management of a large number of blade servers, whether located in a single data center or across multiple data centers. Unlike other blade management solutions, Opsware automation software can manage both blade and non-blade servers across data centers, eliminating the need for multiple management consoles.

Using Opsware Blade Edition with Sun Blades, IT organizations can automate operations of hundreds of Sun Blade servers in multiple locations from a single console, including remote power and chassis management, provisioning and configuration of operating systems and applications, patch management, cloning, recovery and decommissioning servers. As a result, IT organizations that utilize Opsware Blade Edition can provision a chassis of Sun Blade servers in approximately 15 minutes, complete with the Sun Solaris™ Operating System and application infrastructure such as the Sun™ ONE Web Server, application server and directory server. The Opsware Blade Edition speeds many operational tasks by 70-80% as compared to administering these tasks manually.

“Sun Blade servers, combined with integrated management tools such as Opsware software, provide a low-cost data center solution,” said Manish Bhuptani, Group Manager, Market Development Organization, at Sun Microsystems, Inc. “Companies can leverage systems management solutions tailored for Sun Blades to automate the full lifecycle of these servers, reducing the overall costs and complexity of deploying and managing services.”

“Sun’s integrated approach to their blade offering minimizes acquisition and deployment costs by eliminating the need for time-consuming, labor-intensive management,” said Sharmila Shahani, senior vice president of marketing for Opsware Inc. “As companies adopt high-density Sun Blade server solutions to benefit from lower server hardware costs and modular scalability, Opsware brings a fully automated management solution to lower the cost of management and reduce management complexity.”

The Opsware System automates the provisioning and ongoing operation of servers and business applications across multiple data centers. Opsware automation capabilities enable corporations to significantly reduce operational costs, speed operations execution times and realize the benefits of a utility computing model. The Opsware software encapsulates operational best practices and software operations knowledge for over 60 technologies. With Opsware, organizations can automate provisioning, change management, patch management, application deployment and many other key server and application operations. Customers include enterprises, government agencies and service providers who utilize Opsware automation to improve operations quality and therefore reduce operations costs.

About Opsware Inc.
Opsware Inc., formerly Loudcloud, is the leading provider of data center automation (DCA) software, offering a complete solution for enterprises, government agencies and service providers looking to reduce costs and increase IT efficiencies. The Opsware System automates the complete IT lifecycle including provisioning, deploying, changing, scaling, securing, recovering, consolidating, auditing and reallocating servers and business applications. The Opsware System uniquely combines process automation with built in operations knowledge on over 60 technologies. Opsware was the foundation of Loudcloud's software-powered managed services business an has been proven to lower costs, accelerate change and increase service quality. For more information on Opsware Inc., please visit our Web site at www.opsware.com.